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Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
Management philosophy Digital ArticleIt can help you work around obstacles, find opportunities across silos, and more. -
Lincoln Center CEO Henry Timms on New Models for Effective Leadership
Business and society Digital Article“New power” is about circulating new ideas for anyone and everyone to interpret and build on – rather than being controlled by a centralized organization. -
The Myth of the Brilliant, Charismatic Leader
Leadership qualities Digital ArticleResearch shows that good management is more profitable than a cult of personality. -
What Great Remote Managers Do Differently
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleRemote work brought a subtle but important shift in how employees expect their managers to work with them. -
Improving the Practice of Management — Then and Now
Leadership Big IdeaAs HBR turns 100, we look back on our original mission, how we’ve changed, and what the future holds. -
100 Years of HBR
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHBR turns 100 this year, and to mark the anniversary, we're taking both a look back--and a look forward. In the essay, "Improving the Practice of Management--Then... -
What Is the Purpose of Your Purpose?
Business and society SpotlightYour why may not be what you think it is. -
Making Purpose Real
Leadership & Managing People Digital Article"Despite its sudden elevation in corporate life, purpose remains a confusing topic," the authors write. A primary cause of this confusion, they say, is... -
Delta CEO Ed Bastian on Leading an Airline Through Two Years of Pandemic Disruptions
Business and society Digital ArticleThe airline had to adapt to a seemingly endless series of dire, pandemic-related challenges. -
You're Not Paid Based on Your Performance
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhat actually determines compensation on a systemic level? And what should? -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
Reimagining the Urban Office
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleA new kind of workspace could help employees thrive. -
To Build a Strong Culture, Create Rules That Are Unique to Your Company
Organizational Development Digital ArticleDistinctive cultures produce distinctive products. -
Put Purpose at the Core of Your Strategy
Society and business relations Magazine ArticleIt’s how successful companies redefine their businesses. -
How to Make Even the Most Mundane Tasks More Motivating
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleConnect them to a broader goal. -
How One Health System Overcame Resistance to a Surgical Checklist
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA case study for effecting change in a change-averse industry. -
Want Fewer Employees to Quit? Listen to Them
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA new study confirms an old idea. -
Why Tech Companies Hire So Many Economists
Global Business Digital ArticleThere are five areas where their expertise is indispensable. -
8 Things to Do Before You Run a Business Experiment
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleBudget time, not just money. -
Success Breeds Inequality
Organizational Development SpotlightGraphical depictions of the state of play since the Great Recession, showing that the wealthiest individuals and companies are pulling further and further...
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Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
What I Learned from Warren Buffett
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBill Gates and Warren Buffett are by far the two most successful and admired businessmen in the United States. They share a unique friendship, a love... -
Leadership Lessons of Mount Everest
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe Himalayas are one of nature's most demanding classrooms, but they can teach us important principles about taking charge of our followers--and our... -
Skills of an Effective Administrator (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEffective administration depends upon three basic personal skills which, for analytical purposes, can be classified as technical, human, and conceptual.... -
Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleConscience explains why most business men and women keep their word and deal fairly with one another. There is no evidence that honesty pays, despite... -
Ferguson's Formula
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: It hadn't won a league title in... -
What's the Matter with Business Ethics?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe more business ethics secures its status in campuses across the country, the more bewildering it appears to actual managers. It's not that managers... -
Theory of the Business
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIn his thirty-first article for HBR, Peter F. Drucker argues that what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide... -
One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?
Organizational Development HBR BestsellerIt's a manager's perennial question: "How do I get an employee to do what I want?" The psychology of motivation is very complex, but the surest way of... -
You're Not Paid Based on Your Performance
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhat actually determines compensation on a systemic level? And what should? -
What Is the Purpose of Your Purpose?
Leadership & Managing People Spotlight"Despite its sudden elevation in corporate life," the authors write, "purpose remains a confusing topic." They argue that a primary cause of this confusion... -
Shutting Down Your Business Gracefully
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe story of how a 16-year-old company closed its doors. -
From Control to Commitment in the Workplace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThere are two radically different strategies for managing a company's workforce--a strategy based on imposing control and a strategy based on eliciting... -
Success Breeds Inequality
Organizational Development SpotlightGraphical depictions of the state of play since the Great Recession, showing that the wealthiest individuals and companies are pulling further and further... -
The Charts That Changed the World
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIn preparation for the 90th anniversary of Harvard Business Review, the editors combed the magazine archives and other sources to select iconic charts... -
Why I Encourage My Best Employees to Consider Outside Job Offers
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt sends a clear signal that you care about their career progression. -
Production-Line Approach to Service
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleAll industries are, effectively, service industries. Some industries merely have greater service components than others. Many so-called service industries... -
Personal Histories: Leaders Remember the Moments and People That Shaped Them
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIf leadership is personal, then personal experience must hold some of the most valuable lessons in leadership. With that in mind, HBR's editors canvassed... -
How Polls Overestimate Support for Third-Party Candidates
Technology & Operations Digital ArticlePutting support for Gary Johnson and Jill Stein in perspective. -
Capital Versus Talent: The Battle That's Reshaping Business
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor much of the 20th century, labor and capital fought bitterly for control of the industrialized economy. The titans of industry ultimately won a resounding...
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Yum! China
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Since the first KFC opened in China in 1987, Yum--under Sam Su's leadership--had built the largest restaurant company by far in mainland China. Averaging... -
Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial... -
Brush with AIDS (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
The Future of Management
35.00View Details What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs, or new business models, but management innovation--new ways... -
Gucci Group in 2009
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Gucci Group had transformed itself into the world's third largest luxury retailer with multiple brands. The company had performed well even after... -
Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Spanish Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Miles Everson, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take... -
Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM's global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years... -
Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature
35.00View Details Presenting classic leadership dilemmas in a novel and valuable light, Questions of Character helps leaders and aspiring leaders prepare for the opportunities... -
ElektroSecur: General Manager of an SMB at the Age of 29 - (B) One Year Later
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The case looks at Ian Lambert's first year as the new general manager of ElektroSecur, a Canadian SMB with about 40 employees, specialized in the production... -
Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We're Thriving in a New World of Possibility
30.00View Details Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable... -
Sun Hydraulics Corp. (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Involves the design and creation of a company with no formally-defined hierarchy. Describes the steps the founder takes to avoid the organizational politics... -
Minnesota Public Radio: Social Purpose Capitalism
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) started as a small public station that 26-year-old William Kling established at St.... -
General Electric: Valley Forge (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A series of eight vignette cases designed to be taught in one classroom session. This case describes a potential problem in the way that General Electric... -
The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
35.00View Details If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin... -
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management
35.00View Details The best organizations have the best talent. Financial incentives drive company performance. Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive... -
Lincoln Electric: Venturing Abroad
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Lincoln Electric, a 100-year-old manufacturer of welding equipment and consumables based in Cleveland, Ohio, motivates its U.S. employees through a culture... -
Zensar: The Future of Vision Communities (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Zensar is a rapidly growing, mid-sized Indian IT services company with a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies. One of its practices,... -
Sun Hydraulics: Leading in Tough Times (A) (Abridged)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Sun Hydraulics, 32-year-old global hydraulics engineering and manufacturing company headquartered in Sarasota, Florida; confronts tough choices due to... -
Founder CEO Transition at Code2040 (B): How Should Code2040 Execute the Switchover
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case E658A
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Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
What I Learned from Warren Buffett
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBill Gates and Warren Buffett are by far the two most successful and admired businessmen in the United States. They share a unique friendship, a love... -
Leadership Lessons of Mount Everest
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe Himalayas are one of nature's most demanding classrooms, but they can teach us important principles about taking charge of our followers--and our... -
Skills of an Effective Administrator (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEffective administration depends upon three basic personal skills which, for analytical purposes, can be classified as technical, human, and conceptual.... -
Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleConscience explains why most business men and women keep their word and deal fairly with one another. There is no evidence that honesty pays, despite... -
Ferguson's Formula
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: It hadn't won a league title in... -
What's the Matter with Business Ethics?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe more business ethics secures its status in campuses across the country, the more bewildering it appears to actual managers. It's not that managers... -
Theory of the Business
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIn his thirty-first article for HBR, Peter F. Drucker argues that what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide... -
One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?
Organizational Development HBR BestsellerIt's a manager's perennial question: "How do I get an employee to do what I want?" The psychology of motivation is very complex, but the surest way of... -
You're Not Paid Based on Your Performance
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhat actually determines compensation on a systemic level? And what should?